Chomsky did not deserve Record plaudit

Thumbs down to the Pocono Record for giving a thumbs up to East Stroudsburg University for hosting Holocaust denier supporter Noam Chomsky.

In 1979, Chomsky wrote the forward to Robert Faurisson's "Holocaust Denial" book, wherein the gas chambers were portrayed as mere delousing chambers and claims were made that the deaths were in the thousands instead of millions.

While claiming he supported Faurisson's right to free speech, he also legitimized his work, referring to it as "research" and characterized his work as containing "important findings," thus lending his imprimatur to his writings. Chomsky has had 33 years now to come clean in distancing his name from Faurisson's. He has yet to do so. He also was silent on the genocidal massacre of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, giving them a pass for their utopianism.

Imagine an ESU professor inviting a speaker who claimed that most blacks in the first decades of the USA never experienced slavery.

Anyone who minimized the suffering of the slave experience would be hounded as a quack and worse. And yet, Chomsky gets a free pass for his willing association with a notorious Holocaust denier.

Both ESU and the Pocono Record owe an apology to the Jewish community for praising a clear enemy of the Jewish people and granting him an aura of legitimacy and respectability.